Hi Alexandro,
Thanks for your suggestion.
Something I didn't mention yet is that I need an interface that can send
raw data (a byte stream) to a printer driver. The problem with braille
printers is that they're very different from normal ink printers. A
braille printer is more like an old dotmatrix or impact printer, and is
controlled with special escape sequences and codes that define where a
braille dot has to be placed on the paper.
Is it possible to send raw data to a printer using this API?
Best,
Bert
On 25/10/2011 16:41, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
hi, i think it might be better to usee the uno api for the printing services.
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/API/Samples/Java/Office/DocumentHandling#DocumentPrinter
On 10/25/11, Bert Frees<bertfr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
My name is Bert Frees. I'm the developer of odt2braille, the Braille
plugin for OOo: http://odt2braille.sourceforge.net/index.html. Some time
ago I raised an issue on the old developer list (see e-mail below), but
I got no reaction. I'm bringing it up again on this list in the hope
somebody here can help me out. I'm not a Mac expert at all, but I get a
lot of requests for Mac support. A lot of people would be very happy if
this got solved.
Thanks in advance,
Bert Frees
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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Dept. Elektrotechniek - ESAT - SCD
Onderzoeksgroep Documentarchitecturen
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: odt2braille on the Mac
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 11:55:37 +0200
From: Bert Frees<bertfr...@gmail.com>
To: d...@openoffice.org
Hello,
I'm new to this mailing list. My name is Bert Frees. I am the developer
of odt2braille, the OpenOffice.org plugin for printing and exporting
Braille. The website is http://odt2braille.sourceforge.net/index.html.
I'm trying to make this plugin available on the Mac, but I've been
puzzling on a bug for some time now and I'm really stuck. I hope there
is somebody on this list who is familiar with OOo on the Mac, and who
knows what might be the problem.
I'm using javax.print.PrintServiceLookup
<http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/print/PrintServiceLookup.html>
to look up the default printer device. It works fine on Windows, but on
Mac OS it causes OOo to crash. Also, I'm sure the problem is OOo-related
because the code runs fine when it is not embedded in an OOo extension.
This is the code:
javax.print.PrintService[] printers =
javax.print.PrintServiceLookup.lookupDefaultPrintService();
Thanks,
Bert
